A stack, containing 1000 bushels of grain, the property
of an individual, had been unfortunately destroyed
by fire.

The Hawkesbury had again inundated the adjacent country;
and many of the settlers, who had farms on its banks,
had in despair totally abandoned them.

With this information I must here conclude my labours;
and, as the annalist of the English Colony in New
South Wales, probably take my leave for ever of that
country, in whose service I spent the first nine years
of its infancy, during all the difficulties and hardships
with which, in that rude state, it had to contend:
a country which has eventually proved the destruction
of my brightest prospects; having, by my services there,
been precluded from succeeding to my proper situation
in the professional line to which I was bred; without
any other reward as yet to boast of, than the consciousness
of having ever been a faithful and zealous servant
to my employers, and knowing that the peculiar hardship
of my case has been acknowledged by every gentleman,
in and out of office, to whom it has been communicated.